Tuesday, June 29, 2010


Red Hot Veggies!

All our hard work has been worth it! Red Hot Veggies is in business!
I just picked our first true harvest of French Breakfast Radishes with my boys. This is our favorite variety. They are more mild than the ones you get in the store and I think they are prettier. :)
The best part of the entire picking was my boy's oohhs and ahhhss when they pulled out a big radish. We cleaned them and put them in bunches along with bagging arugula and spinach.
So 20 bunches of radishes, arugula, and spinach are now ready to sell.
All this done with 20 lb baby on my back or one handed when she felt like she wanted to be in on the fun. :)

I am finally doing something I believe in and love!

Want to try something new? Radish appetizer. Fresh radishes, herb butter (or regular), sea or kosher salt.
Arrange radishes on plate with butter and salt in ramekins. Sounds boring....It is sooo not!


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Thursday, June 24, 2010



Rhubarb!
So I haven't decided what or whom to blame for ruining my "diet" this week but last week Rhubarb and Martha Stewart's Rhubarb Cupcakes were at fault!
With the help of my 6 year old we had our first harvest of rhubarb cleaned cut and froze in an hour. Well that is if you added the time up. Really it took the day to get it into the freezer but that's another story. 24 cups to start in all. I of course HAD to make something with the fresh rhubarb so tried out Martha's Cupcakes. Ummm....yeah...to die for...or at least to blow a diet for!

Love to see all of or hard work growing now. I think we might have gone a little crazy the last month and a half but now that veggies are popping up and strawberry and raspberries are blooming I get reminded why we do this every year.

Had our first salad of the season two nights ago with baby arugula and french breakfast radishes. Made us smile. :)

Someone asked me the other day at my son's soccer game why I don't join the "MOM's Club" for activities to do so I don't get bored.......ummm yeah I'll get right on it. :)

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Sunday, June 6, 2010


Planting is DONE!

I should have logged how many hours we spent getting everything planted before we went on vacation last week. I think it might have been a record for us. We keep on saying (as we add on a little more each year) that someday we will just have to plant and not add any more beds.....someday. :) Up until the hour we left I was shoving the remaining broccoli plants and green bean seeds in places and pots and dirt just so they wouldn't go to waste. We came back to everything green and germinated (I'll post pics soon) thanks to my neighbors and sprinklers on timers.

Someone asked me the other day if I was already weeding my garden. HA...uh NO!! I don't mind pulling most weeds but once chickweed has taken root I'm done with weeding and hope that my veggies grow up and faster. Any advice on chickweed and I'm all for it. ugh....

My first harvest of Rhubarb is ready to pull. Flowers on on my strawberries and tomatoes and I see "tiny" cucumbers and zucchinis starting to grow!
Yay the fun part has begun!

Get Ready Friends "Fire Hot Veggies" CSA is in production....
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South Central, Alaska, United States
Love, joy, procrastination, and frustration of a Urban Alaskan Gardener Cook and most importantly Mother of three.... It might not always be pretty but I wouldn't trade it for anything! Life long Alaskan who really does not enjoy the ever so long winters. However, I live for my summers. My body decides that when the light comes (and let me tell you we get a lot), sleep no more, have time to make up for. I enjoy cooking/baking/decorating but my passion is gardening. I always set out for things to be perfect but usually settle for a lot less because frankly I don't have the time or patience (3 children under the age of 5 need I say more...oh yeah...and a husband:) So to sum me up I'm an introverted, detail oriented, procrastinator that hates to be late for anything and rarey finishes a project. I love my family and friends and throughly enjoy being able to take care of my children and watch them grow everyday!